Question: Did LSU expose Bama weaknesses or just surprised with how well Mettenburger played?

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Re: Did LSU expose Bama weaknesses or just surprised with how well Mettenburger playe

LSU played their best game of the year while coming off a bye week and Alabama played their worst game of the year. Yet Bama still won the game. That is very telling. Despite LSU being prolly the better team last night, Alabama has been the better team for the better part of two years.

Simply not enough running in the second half. We were very productive with our running game - we just didn't go to it enough. Had we done so and got an extra FG or TD I think you would have seen LSU be forced to go with a more down field passing game likely leading to more INT opportunities.

We tried to keep the same game plan from last year; however we refused to believe that Mettie could continue to execute the way he did. More running would have kept the ball out of his hands.

It's hard to say they were dominated. The stats say a lot, but so does the scoreboard.

It's not really hard to say at all. Every Alabama fan including myself insisted on saying it last year after the game in Tuscaloosa. We dominated them statistically in that game and we lost. Almost each one of us here repeatedly pointed to that as why we would and eventually did win the championship game. LSU's defense stopped us for most of the night last night and our defense could not stop them most of the night. Plain and simple they beat us everywhere except the score board.

LSU took advantage of our defensive game plan. All week everyone in the country and most on here said we would focus on stopping their run and basically dare mettinberger to beat us with his arm. It looks as if that's what our plan was and he almost did.

Re: Did LSU expose Bama weaknesses or just surprised with how well Mettenburger playe

[QUOTE=Quicksilver;2018983]About CNS not going berserk on the sideline, this demonstrates to me the extent to which the man is in control of himself, his behavior, and the team that he coaches. He understood no doubt that Alabama was fighting for its collective life against LSU and berating players during the game for lapses in performance would probably have been counterproductive.

What AJ did at the end of the game was worthy of John Elway in his Broncos prime.[/QUOTE

I would compare AJ's performance to my favorite old time NFL quarterback, Roger Staubach. He too was a master of the two minute offense but was a rairity in that he could have a terrible day and then in the last two minutes make 4 or 5 exceptional throws and pull off a win. Like AJ, he also had defense and running game that could keep the game close until the final 2 minutes. It takes an exceptional quarterback to turn a personally bad game (or half) into a win with one or two minutes of excellence.

Re: Did LSU expose Bama weaknesses or just surprised with how well Mettenburger playe

Without the muffed punt and the fumbled handoff, the game isn't close. But they did happen so that is moot.
I was a really great, exciting game, and all of the little things have pretty much been covered in this thread.
Big picture, LSU had two weeks to prepare and they had a good game plan and obviously practiced it all two weeks. They executed it well. They were at home , at night and fired up.

We were a little flat, made some out of character mistakes on D like missed tackles, miss assignments, muffed punt.
I think the biggest thing on offense was seemingly abandoning the running game for most of the second half. I believe we had 3 three and outs with three passes. Its like we followed our game plan of throwing on 1st down just for the sake of following the game plan. We didn't make real time adjustments. There are plenty of mistakes to work on and and we need to keep working on getting better.
We showed that we aren't going to give up and will play for 60 minutes.
Time to start getting ready for aTm.

Re: Did LSU expose Bama weaknesses or just surprised with how well Mettenburger playe

When a 270 running back gets up a head of steam, he is hard to bring down. That is why they had so much success with their running game. Plus, they played a very balanced game with their QB having the game of his life. In recent history, I haven't seen a QB place such perfect passes against us. Our secondary will continue to grow and learn from this. In fact, it just might be what we need as a team to stay focused and continue to get better.

Re: Did LSU expose Bama weaknesses or just surprised with how well Mettenburger playe

Originally Posted by gamersfuel

i think some weaknesses were exposed. or at least some things that we need to get better at. In particular (and most dont agree with me and i've been saying it since about the 2nd or 3rd game) is our run defense up the middle. it needs to get stronger if we are to win it all again.

Re: Did LSU expose Bama weaknesses or just surprised with how well Mettenburger playe

I'd agree that our DBs, especially Belue, were a bit "exposed" last night, but as has been pointed out above, a lot of that was the failure of our blitz packages to reach the QB in time (and his new-found guts to stand in, even when he was about to be punished). One of the staff told one of my best friends, after Jarrick went down, that, if we lost one more DB, we could kiss any championship aspirations goodbye...

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Re: Did LSU expose Bama weaknesses or just surprised with how well Mettenburger playe

Originally Posted by TIDE-HSV

I'd agree that our DBs, especially Belue, were a bit "exposed" last night, but as has been pointed out above, a lot of that was the failure of our blitz packages to reach the QB in time (and his new-found guts to stand in, even when he was about to be punished). One of the staff told one of my best friends, after Jarrick went down, that, if we lost one more DB, we could kiss any championship aspirations goodbye...